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Overview and critical issues affecting Latina health -- Risk factors and disparities among Latinas -- Sexual and reproductive health issues -- Chronic conditions: heart disease, cancer, and diabetes -- Alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs -- Mental health -- The next generation: Latina adolescents -- Rural and migrant farmworker Latinas -- Special issues : Relation of demographic and lifestyle factors to symptoms in a multiracial/ethnic population of women forty- to fifty-five years of age ; Lesbian women of color: triple jeopardy ; Prevalence and predictors of physical partner abuse among Mexican American women ; Acculturation and disordered eating patterns among Mexican American women ; Welfare reform and its impact on Latino families. |
